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Ole Bull 

Pilgrimage 

July 30 ^ 

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Pennsylvania Historical 
Commission 

Potter County Historical 
Society 






INDEX 

Pennsylvania Historical Commission 5 

Potter County Historical Society 5 

Program of Exercises 9 

Sketch of Ole Bull 10 

Map of Potter County 13 

County Forestry Facts 25 

Shinglehouse 35 

Potter County Schools 41 

Sketch of Galeton Borough 49 

The Flood City ^ 58 

Potter County Agriculture 65 

Coudersport Borough 68 

Wood Chemical Industry 72 

Other County Towns 75 

ILLUSTRATIONS 

Old Glory 2 

Ole Bull 3 

Governor William C. Sproul 4 

A Catch of Beauties 7 

View From Ole Bull Castle 8 

Wall Around Crest of Ole Bull Hill 10 

Hunting Scene in Potter County 12 

Map of Potter County 13 

Potter County Forest 25 

Forestry View 27 

Methodist Church at Shinglehouse 3 5 

Honeoye Valley Temperance Assembly 37 

Before Automobile Days 3 9 

Coudersport High School Building 41 

Shinglehouse High School Building 41 

Township School at Cross Fork 43 

May Pole Drill at Austin School 45 

Icicles Twelve Feet Long 55 

Austin Community Club House 58 

North Pennsylvania General Hospital 60 

Contended Potter County Thoroughbreds 65 

Potter County Court House 68 

Potter County Jail 69 

Coudersport and Port Allegany R. R. Station 71 

W. I. Lewis Library at Ulysses 76 

Gray Chemical Company Plant 73 

Gigantic Milk Plant at Genesee 75 

view From Site of Ole Bull Castle 77 

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Ole Bull 




Governoi- William C. Sproul 



PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 

Incorporated by Act of Legislature 1913 

William H. Stevenson, Chairman Pittsburgh 

Geo. P. Donehoo, Secretary Coudersport 

William Perrine, Treasurer Philadelphia 

Hon. Hampton L. Carson Philadelphia 

Hon. A. E. Sisson Erie 

Hon. Thomas L. Montgomery, Curator Harrisburg 

TRUSTEES 

Hon. William C. Sproul, Governor 

Hon. Charles A. Snyder, Auditor General 
Hon. Harmon L. Kephart, Treasurer 

POTTER COUNTY HISTORCAL SOCIETY 
Incorporated 1919 

Geo. P. Donehoo, President Coudersport 

Cora M. Rennells, Recording Secretary Coudersport 

M. C. Burt, Corresponding Secretary Coudersport 

W. W. Thompson, Treasurer Coudersport 

Mrs. Nellie O. DuBois, Librarian, Coudersport 

Mrs. R. A. Olmsted, First Vice President Coudersport 

J. L. Raymond, Second Vice President Ulysses 

Mrs. Nellie B. Pfeiffer, Third Vice President Roulette 

Hon. F. E. Baldwin, Fourth Vice President Austin 

Marcus Handwerk, Fifth Vice President Galeton 

MEMBERS 

Coudersport 
Geo. P. Donehoo M. J. Colcord 

Monta C. Burt Dr. R. B. Knight 

W. W. Thompson Mrs. Eloise Farnsworth 

Eva D. Thompson A. T. Nelson 

E. M. Elliott Annabel Gillon 

Mrs. E. M. Elliott Celia Gillon 

Daniel McConeghy Mrs. R. C. Lloyd 

Mrs. Daniel McConeghy Arthur DuBois 

A. Bamford W. G, Rennells 

Mrs. A. Bamford Mrs. W. C. Rennells 

Mrs. August Luft Nora M. Hartwell 

Nellie Perkins Mrs. Belle H. Lewis 

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J. V. Dieffenbacher 

Mrs. J. V. Dieffenbacher 

Katherine Stocum 

A. P. Akeley 

Mrs. A. P. Akeley 

Mrs. J. F. Dieffenbacher 

Cora Rennells 

R. L. Emerick 

Mrs. Mary Welfling 

Helen Welfling 

J. L. Knox 

Mrs. J. L. Knox 

R. A. Olmsted 

Mrs. R. A. Olmsted 

Mrs. Harrison Gates 

Nell J. Stephens 

Blanche S. Bartoo 

Sarah Howe 

Nina Olmsted 

R. A. Knox 

Mrs. J. G. Covey 

Mrs. R. A. Knox 

Mrs. N. A. Pinney 

Mrs. Kate C. Haughenberry 

Ruth Nelson 

J. W. Wells 

Mrs. J. W. Wells 

W. F. DuBois 

Mrs. W. F. DuBois 

Mrs. E. W. Smith 

A. N. Crandall 

A. F. Jones 

R. R. Lewis 

Conrad Miller 

F. L. Andrews 

Harry Nelson 

A. B. Mann 

A. A. 



Mrs. E. W. Lyon 
M. S. Harvey 
Mrs. M. S. Harvey 
Fannie Perkins 
Mrs. Maude Huff 
Mrs. Elsie Covey 
Mrs. M. J. Colcord 
Mrs. R. R. Lewis 
F. W. Kendig 
Mrs. F. W. Kendig 
Mrs. F. L. Andrews 
Mrs. Geo. Olmsted 
D. R. Cobb 
Mrs. D. R. Cobb 
Mrs. G. P. Donehoo 
J. R. Collins 
Mrs. J. R. Collins 
Dr. Binnington 
Arthur Olmsted 
Warren Olmsted 
Margaret Olmsted 
Clara Andrews 
Mrs. Almira Perkins 
F. A. Stebbins 
W. H. Richards 
Mrs. W. H. Richards 
Dr. F. G. Reese 
Agnes Burt 
Mrs. A. F. Jones 
Mrs. D. B. Belknap 
Mrs. E. C. Stevens 
Mrs. William Root 
Mrs. M. B. McGoey 
Mrs. Lottie G. Potter 
Mrs. Ellen Daniels 
Helen Hartwell 
William D. Fish 
Bernard 



F. A. Millet 



Ulysses 

Geo. C. Marion 
John Raymond 



Germania 

Mrs. Ella Yampen 

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Mrs. Nellie Pfeiffer 
Mrs. Kittle C. Lyman 
Madie Burt 



F. E. Baldwin 
W. K. Everett 



Roulette 

M. R. Card 
Menzo Burt 
Mrs. Bertella Atkins 
John C. French 

Austin 

Ralph S. Austin 
Marie K. Brisbois 
Walter L. Nuschke 

Harrison Valley 
Lena G. Stevens 

Odin 
Henry Harris 

Galeton 
M. J. Handwerk 

Costello 
Alice McGee 

Oswayo 
Mrs. W. W. Crittenden 

Calfornia 
Mrs. Susan Godfrey 




A Catch of Beauties from the Waters of Kettle Creek. 

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\'ie\v of Kettle Creek From Ole Bull Castle 



Pilgrimage of the Potter County Histor- 
ical Society to the Site of Ole 
Bull's Castle, near Oleona, 
July 30th, 1920. 

PEOGKAM OF EXERCISES AT 2 P. M. 
Star Spangled Banner . . Condersport Boys' Band 
Invocation Rev. W. D. Hevner, Galeton 

Address of Welcome and Brief Sketch of the 
History of the Ole Bull Colony 

Geo. P. Donehoo, D. D., President of Society 
Poem, "Ode to Ole Bull," by the Author, .... 

J. H. Chatham, McElhattan 

Violin Solo, "Visions of Oleona," by the Com- 
poser, Dr. Will George Butler, Mansfield 
Address by the Governor of Pennsylvania, 

Hon. William C. Sproul 

Brief addresses by following guests of the Society: 
Hon, Gifford Pinchot . . . Commissioner of Forestry 
C^ol. Henry W. Shoemaker . . . Forestry Commission 

Dr. J. T. Rothrock Forestry Commission 

Hon. William H, Stevenson 

Chainnan of the Historical Commission 

Dr. Thomas L. Montgomery 

Curator of the Historical Commission 

Gen. A. E. Sisson 

Member of the Historical Commission 

Dr. Henry S. Drinker 

President of Lehigh University 

Dr. Edwin E. Sparks . . President of State College 

Judge Henry C. Quigley Centre County 

Hon. Richard S. Quigley Clinton County 

Hon. C. H. Armstrong Lock Haven 

America . . Coudersport Boys' Band and Audience 
Benediction Rev. J. B. Harry, Coudersport 

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SKETCH OF OLE BULL 

I"T WAS in 1852 that Ole Bull, Norwegian musi- 
eian-i)atriot, sought to colonize some of his 
countrymen in the Ignited States, and be a leader 
among tliem. This section of the country became a 
hmd of promise for the l)and of sturdy Norwegians 
led by the master violinist. This land of promise 
was of brief duration for the l^and, for after being- 
defrauded, they were obliged to leave its half-clear- 
ed fields and partly con pleted homes. Many of 
them went to the prairie lands of Wisconsin and 
Minnesota and proved successful in their new loca- 
tion. 

In an address he said to them: "We are to 
found a New Norway, consecrated to liberty, ba])- 




Wall Around the Crest of Ole Bull Hill 
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tized with independence and protected by America's 
mighty flag." 

He choose Potter Comity for his colonization 
scheme, purchasing from a land-owner in Philadel- 
phia, 11,144 acres of land at the headwaters of Ket- 
tle Creek, in what is now Abbott and Stewardson 
townships. It seems the landowners in Philadelpliia 
had not a clear title to this land, and thus Ole Bull 
lost it. OJe laid out four villages: Oleona, New Nor- 
way, New Bergen and Walhalla. Here the colonists 
built their log houses. The largest settlement was 
at Oleona, where about sixteen houses were erected. 

Ole Bull's castle was built about a mile below 
Oleona, on the crest of a bluff and at the mouth of a 
little stream now called Ole Bull Eun, which empties 
into Kettle Creek. This castle of Ole Bull, by which 
name even its present-day ruins are known, could be 
seen for miles from either of three directions. 

At the early age of 21 years, Ole Bull went to 
Paris, where with assistance from his friends, he 
soon won local distinction as a student of the great 
Paganini. With the success of his concerts in Swit- 
zerland and at Milan, Venice, Naples and London, 
his fame spread rapidly. At Rome, because of his 
playing four distinct parts on the violin at one time, 
the people, and even royalty, hailed him as a magi- 
cian. Everywhere he went on the continent he was 
received with great enthusiasm. Other great suc- 
cesses rapidly followed, Ole Bull playing at the 
coronation of kings and with Liszt. 

He first visited America in 1842, making a tri- 
umphant musical tour of the United States, Canada 
and the West Indies. His popularity in America 
was great, and after another successful European 
tour, Ole Bull returned to the United States, in 

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1852, with the intention of making real the dream of 
his life— the founding in tlie United States of a col- 
ony for his countrymen. Into the ju-oject he put his 
vast earnings from his concerts. It is now a matter 
of history that this project failed, and the Norwe- 
gian colonists drifted to otiier localities. Ole Bull 
died near Bergen, Norway, in 18'(). 

The location of Ole Bnll's C^astle will be noted 
on the maj) in the soutli-eastern part of Potter 
County. 




i^uneing Seeae in Potter County 
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IxM'ii developed from exi)eri- 
ence and intiniati^ know- 
ledge of the needs of onr de- 
positors. We desire to ren- 
der always a little AIORP] 
service, a little better serv- 
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The Coudersport Plant 

JNO. DUNLOP'S SONS 

Proprietors of the Following Mills 

Jno. Dunlop's Sons, Spring Valley, N. Y. 
The Dunlop Silk Mill, Olean, N. Y. 
The Dunlop Silk Mill, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Dunlop Brothers, Spring Valley, N. Y, 
Dunlop Brothers, Massena, N, Y. 

The Harbred Silk (^o., Shinglehouse, Pa. 
The Harbred Silk Co., Shickshinny, Pa. 
The Harbred Silk Co., Benton, Pa. 

The Harbred Silk Co., Coudersport, Pa. 
The Harbred Silk Co., Galeton, Pa. 



New York ()ffice and Laboratory 

The Dunlop Building- 
ID Madison Ave. 
New York 



Mill Executive Offices 

Spring Valley 

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CITIZENS SAFE DEPOSIT & 
TRUST CO. 

COUDERSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA 



Capital - - $125,000.00 
Surplus and Profits $70,000.00 



Your commercial, personal or savings account 
is invited by this bank, virith the assurance of 
ample protection and best service. 



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EARLY COUNTY HISTORY 

^^^'HE province of Pennsylvania was lirst estab- 
^^^lislied by the Treaty of Breda in 1667, when 
the territory of Pennsylvania was confirmed by the 
Dutch or New Netherlanders to the English Govern 
ment. This territory remained under the jurisdic- 
tion of the British Governors of New York until 
1682 when the territories of Pennsylvania and Dei- 
aware were surrendered to William Penn, granted to 
him by Charles 11, the charter of which is a familiar 
document frequently ]>ublished in Smull's Hand 
Book. 

Originally Pennsylvania consisted of three 
counties, Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester. The ter- 
ritory, comprising Potter County and nearly all oi 
the northwest, was known as Northumberland Coun- 
ty and was created or organized by Act of Assembly, 
approved March 21, 1772. There were several prior 
purchases of the Indians, but the territory compris- 
ing the counties of Tioga, Potter, McKean, Jefferson 




A Potter County Trout Stream 
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THE HOME OF THE VICTROLA 

And the Vietrola helps to make 
the home. Our store carries a 
complete line in all sizes of this 
niachine, together witli all tlie new 
and hitest records. 

KODAK AS YOU GO 

and purchase your Kodak at this 
store. Maintain a 24-hour service 
in tlie developing and jninting of 
vour films. 



J. P. McCONEGHY 

Victrolas, Kodaks 
Jewelry 

( '( )ITI>ERSP()RT PENNSYLVANIA 



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Warren, Venango, Armstrong, Allegheny, Butler, 
C^rawford, Mercer and Beaver is known as the Later 
Purchase, not by William Penn but by the Comn on- 
wealth oi Pennsylvania by treaty with the Indians 
October, 1^74, (at Fort M'Intosli.) 

Potter County was ors>anized by Act, approved 
the 26th day of March, 180-1:. The description began 
at the soi^thepst cornier of McKean and ran east 
thirty miles to Broadhead's easterly district line; 
then north, on the district line, to the State line, and 
west, a ong tiie State Line, to the northeast corner of 
McKean. 

The earliest recorls of Potter County titles are 
found at Williamsport, the county seat of Lycoming 
County, the courts of which had jurisdiction of Pot- 
ter County affairs until 1824; then, for a few years, 
kept in McKean county, although the two counties 
were entirely separate territorily. 




Rose, Potter County's Only Lake. 
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I THE JOERG DRUG COMPANY 

I The Rexall Store 

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I Leading dealers in 

I Phonographs 

I Kodaks 

i Picture Making Supplies 

I , Candies 

I Cigars and Tobaccos 

I S^tationery 

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A store at which it is a 



THE JOERG DRUG COMPANY 

COUDERSPORT, PENN'A. 



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I'otter uoiinty Railroading — B. & S. Switchback 

March 26, 1814, the county was provisionally 
organized with McKean and on the 27th of March, 
1824, McKean and Potter were separated and de- 
tached and each of the counties authorized to have 
separte Boards of Commissioners, separate Auditors 
and county officers. 

The earlist court records of McKean county 
show returns of constables made at the regular 
sessions of court for districts of Potter County. 

The County was organized for judicial purposes 
in 1845. The records of the organization of the 
courts are somewhat incomplete. The first Appear- 
ance Docket began with March term, 1833, that rec- 
ord shows the issuing of a summons dated December 
31, 1832, to Sheriff James Tyler, who was Sheriff of 
McKean County. It was served and returned by 
John L. Cartee of Potter County, deputy. The rec- 
ord of that case was made up by R. Chadwick, Pro- 
thonotar}^ of McKean County, Ohio. J. Hamlin, fath- 

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Store Established in 1882 



J^O keep GROWING is possible only 
^^ through regailar, satisfied customers. 
Customers who were with us from tlie 
beginning are still with us— Grandfathers, 
Fathers and Children— because Grabe 
Service and Fair Dealing have been made 
more important than the sale itself. 



FURNITURE AND RUGS 
FUNERAL DIRECTOR 



ALMON R. GRABE 
Coudersport, Pa. 



er of Hon. Henry Hamlin, was attorney for the plain- 
tiff, and L. B. Cole, well-known in Potter County, 
was attorney for the defendant. The writ was test- 
od by Hon. Edward Herrick, President Judge. The 
first court was held in September, 1836, but the rec- 
ord does not show who presided as Judge. 




Where the SpeckletJ Beauties are Found. 



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THE 

WINCHESTER 

STORE 



JAMES R. TAUBERT 

HARDWARE 
COUDERSPORT, PA. 



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COUNTY FORESTRY FACTS 

J^HE entire area of Potter County is 678,890 
^^ acres, of which 90 per cent, or 546,645 acres is 
woodland or waste land. The Pennsylvania Depart- 
ment of Forestry owns 137,380 acres. The Depart- 
ment has x>aid $260,959.99 for this area and each 
year returns to the county $6,869.00 for school, road 




Potter County Forest 

and county purposes. There has been returned to 
the State Treasurer $5,238.30 from the sale of wood, 
leases, etc. 

Since acquiring these lands the Department has 
made the following improvements which have great- 
ly increased the value of the land: 

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McCABE FURNITURE COMPANY 

Incorpora ted 
Manufacturers of 

BED KOOM FUENITUEE 

Thos. McCabe, President. 

Earl R. Morrison, VLce President. 

Frank A. Beyer, Treas. and Mgr. i 

R. Z. Morrison, Secretary. 




Bird's Eye View 



Taken from top of Allegany Mountains, of the 
plant where "McCabe Quality" line of Bed Room Furni- 
ture is made — known to practically every State east of 
the Mississippi. 

The Plant is located on the C. P. A. R. R., at Cou- 
dersport, Pa., connecting with three trunk lines as 
follows: Pennsylvania Lines, Erie Railroad, and New 
York Central Lines. 

This organization owns, or controls its own lumber 
production, owns its panel and veneer plant, and also its 
mirror plant. The personell is made up of men of long 
experience; altogether making for a production of furni- 
ture the construction and finish of which is excelled by 
none. 

The Corporation has rightly earned the slogan 
"McCabe Quality Furniture, Once Sold, Stays Sold." 



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Iioads, iinproved and constructed, 42 n.iles. 

Trails opened, 186 miles. 

Boundary lines surveyed, 278 miles. 

Telephone lines built, 62^/2 miles. 

Telephones connected, 18, 

Wooden tire towers built, 4, 

Steel fire-lookouts, 4, 

Springs opened and cleaned, 143, 

■Camp sites leased, 45, 

Fish planted, 125,000, 

Area reforested, 6,218 acres. 

Trees planted, 8,890,450. 

Every year an average of 6,500 campers, hunt- 
ers and fishermen use this State Forest land. 

The Department has distributed 332,588 seed- 
lings to private individuals. 




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BUSY HAPPY CONTENTED 



ENGLAND ? NO! 



J^^^HERE is located in Potter County a 
^^y thrifty up-to-date grocer, wlio was 
born in England and lived for years in 
London. Seeing greater opportunities in 
America lie came to this country. After 
spending a few years here he saw his 
greatest opportunity in Potter County, 
where he is making good and pleased with 
the wonders the county offers. This man is 



S. H. OWEN 

Grocer 
COUDERSPORT, - - - PENNSYLVANIA. 

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In order to prevent forest fires and to extin- 
guish promptly any fires that do occur, a patrol sys- 
tem and lookout system of fire protection has been 
organized. During the Spring and Fall fire season, 
an average of 15 patrolmen are on duty. Forty-four 
local forest fire wardens are constantly alert to pre- 
vent and extinguish forest fires. 

The State Forestry land in Potter County is 
shown by the shaded portions of map on page 13. 



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WHY WE ARE LOCATED IN 
POTTER COUNTY 



^w^E ARE located in the hardware business 
VAxin Potter County because Potter County 
has— 

The most thrifty modern farmers. 
Great diversity of industry. 
Wonderful roads. 
Pure mountain water. 
Unrivaled scenic beauty. 
Streams full of speckled beauties. 
Hunting of big game. 
The best of schools. 
A most hospitable people. 



W. T. FISK 

HARDWARE 

COUDEESPORT, - - - - PENN'A. 



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PHELFS 

Garage, Livery and 
Feed Stable 



Good Cars, Competent 
Careful Drivers 



Day and Night 
Service 



Always at Your 
Service 



PHELP'S LIVERY AND GARAGE 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 



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THE HOTEL CRITTENDEN 

Jas. A. Kelly, Prop. 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 

On Court House Square, Main and Second Streets. 
Largest and Best Hotel in Potter County. Rooms with 
Bath and Running Water. Comfortable Beds. Homelike 
and Tasty Cuisine. Garage in Connection. American 
Plan. 

The Old Coudersport Hotel Formerly on the same site 
in which Ole Bull is said to have played. 




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OUR GROCERY MEANS 
SERVICE 



DOT just the mere selling of goods to you. 
A grocery store is essential to the every 
clay life of each individual and we aim to make 
our store fill every need and requirement of the 
indivichial. 

You win appreciate Grocer}^ Store Service 
if you become a patron of this store. 



L. D. MEACHAM 

COUDERSPORT - - - PENN,A. 



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The 

First National 

Bank 

Shinglehouse 
Penna. 



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Geo. W. Dodge, President 

F. H. Raymond, Vice President 
H. C. Keller, Cashier 

R. L. Lunn, Asst. Cashier 

DIRECTORS 
Geo. W. Dodge W. W. Martin 

J. B. Donovan H. C. Pratt 

H. C. Keller F. H. Raymond 

J. F. Stone A. Salomon 

B. L. Langworthy 

Member of Federal Reserve Bank 

American and Pennsylvania 

Bankers Association 



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SHINGLEHOUSE 

(By C. A. Herrick) 

fHlXGLEHOUSE, an odd name surely. The 
first settlement was made early in the nineteen- 
th century, some of the original tow-n being in Mc- 
Kean county, a quarter of a mile below the ])resent 
west line of the borough, and derived its name from 
n house sided a.^ well as roofed with shaved shingles. 
The first stores were located near the Horse Run 
bridge, one of quite good size being on the rise of 
ground at the north side of the Oswayo creek and 
conducted 1)y Pete Dedrick. In those days, as well 
as later, cutting the virgin pine timber, sawing it in 




Methodist Church at Shinglehouse 

the mills and rafting and running it down the river 
to Pittsburgh was the main business of the early 
settlers. They sold good, clear, white pine lumber 
for ten dollars per thousand feet. 

The first store where Shinglehouse now stands 
was erected by Wiley Humphrey, who conducted it 
for a time and sold it to Benjamin Jones, and is a 
part of the present store conducted by Babcock & 
Hess. The first post office was established here dur- 

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THE 

OSWAYO VALLEY 

MAIL 



A Clean Country Weekly 

Serving Efl'ectively The 

People in Its Field 



Modern Job Printing Plant 
in Connection 



All the Live News of the 

Oswayo Valley and 

Potter Countv 



C. A. HERRICK 

Editor and Owner 

SHINGLEHOUSE, PA. 



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ing President Pierce's administration in the early 
40 's with G. W. Mosier as post master. In the year 
1837 a schoolhouse was erected near what is now the 
Assembly grounds, where the Misses Stillman, Cla- 
rissa Leroy of Clara, Miranda Jones and Huldah 
Nichols taught. The S. D. B. church was incorpor- 
ated in 1883, Methodist church in 1885, and the 
First Baptist church in 1906. 

Along in the 80 's, gas was struck in Sharon 
township and lands were leased and n.any good 
wells brought in, and some of them are producing 
today. Since then hundreds of gas wells have been 
drilled in the vicinity of Shinglehouse and at pres- 
ent there are four big gas companies with pumping 
stations and gasoline plants in operation pumping 
millions of cubic feet of natural gas and thousands 
of gallons of gasoline from this field. The com- 




Honeoye Valley Temperance Assembly 

])anies are the United Natural Gas Co., Producer's 
Gas Co., Empire Gas Co., and the Empire Glass Co., 
which uses millions of feet a year in its big window 
glass factory. The Wolcott Gas Co., also produces 
considerable gas and gasoline. 

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H. E. Fenner 



Nina L. Fenner 



H. E. FENNER & CO. 

General Merchandise 
SHINGLEHOUSE, PA. 



One of the Biggest Little Stores 
in the County 



Our Motto: 

Good Goods at a Reasonable 

Profit 



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Shinglehouse Livery Before Automobile Days 

The town was only a small place until 1901, 
when Hiram Palmer came here from Kane and erect- 
ed the big window glass plant, which brought hun- 
dreds of families to Shinglehouse and was the mak- 
ing of the present hustling borough, which is con- 
sidered one of the best towns in the county. We 
now have a silk mill, machine shop, feed mills, a 
number of good stores, good banking institution 
and fine schools. A water system and sewers, and a 
concrete i)avement now under way through our two 
business streets and on through the borough to the 
McKean county line. We are connected up with 
the outside towns by trolley and steam railroad. 
Hon. Geo. W. Dodge has the honor of being the old- 
est merchant, having located here in the late 60 's. 

The old Oswayo Valley is one of the finest in 
the county, and instead of the hum of the circular 
saws in the many old-time mills, you now hear the 
**whoa" of the plow boys who work on the many 
fertile farms along the valley. It is a fine dairy sec- 
tion and great quantities of butter and cheese are 
made and shipped, along with much other farm pro- 
duce. The writer has always and will continue to 
pull for the old Oswayo Valley. 

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Established 1876 



THE DODGE HARDWARE CO. 

(Not Incorporated) 

Oldest Hardware Concern in Potter County 

Stock consists largely of Nationally Advertised 
Goods of Merit 

— Agents for — 

De Laval Separator Co., Cream Separators. 

Johns-Manville Co., Roofing Products. 

Monitor Furnace Co., Caloric Pipeless Furnaces. 

Ajax Rubber Co., Automobile Tires. 

Devoe & Raynolds Co., Paints. 

Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Guns and Ammu- 
niticn. 

F. E. Myers & Bro., Pumps, Haying Tools, Barn 
Door Equipment. 

Cornell Wood Products Co., Cornell Board. 

Detroit Stove Works, Stoves. 

Armour Fertilizer Works, Fertilizers. 

Colonial Salt Co., Salt. 

LeRoy Plow Co., Plows, Harrows, Cultivators. 

John Deere Plow Co., Plows. 

Wiard Plow Co., Plows. 

A well selected stock of hardware coupled with 
service has piompted disinterested comment to the ef- 
fect that this is the best appointed hardware store in 
this section of the country. We admit it. 



DODGE HARD WAKE C(3. 
Shinglehouse Pennsylvania 

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POTTER COUNTY SCHOOLS 

Potter County has thirty school districts which 
cover a total area of 1,071 square miles. Over this 
area are conveniently located 10 one-room rural 
schools, 6 two-room rural schools, 10 high schools 




Coudersport High School Building 

and 10 graded schools with more than two teachers. 
These schools have a total enrollment of 4,508 
pupils, 2,773 of whom are in the graded and high 
schools and 1,735 in the niral schools. In June, 1920 
the high schools of tile county graduated a total of 




Shinglehouse High School Building 
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

AND 

COUDERSPORT TRUST COMPANY 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 




Combined Resources. .$l,25U,U(J0.O0 
DIRECTORS 
Fred C. Leonard John F. Stone 

A. F. Smith M. S. Harvey 

V\'. F. Du Bois W. G. Van Kuren 

F. A. Raymond Henry J. Theis 

Opposite the Court House 



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110 students. Of the 203 teachers of the county 
there are 173 grade teachers and 30 high school 
teachers. Eight of these teachers are college gradu- 
ates, 53 are graduates of State Normals, 175 are high 
school graduates, 21 hold pennanent certificates, 29 
liold professional certificates, and 69 hold provision- 




Township School at Cross Fork 

al certificates. 152 of the 203 teachers of the county 
have had more than one year's experience in teach- 
ing. 89 have been n:ore than one year in their pres- 
ent position. All schools of Potter County are equip- 
ped with charts, maps, globes, etc., and all have a 
library consisting of at least a few volumes. Many 
have very extensive libraries of well selected books. 
All schools except three are equipped with slate 
blackboards. 

The average number of months taught in the 
schools of Potter County is 8. During the past year 
the 203 teachers were paid salaries totaling to 
approximately $128,000 while a total of more than 

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A. A. Bernard W. D. Fish 

THE 

POTTER ENTERPRISE 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 



PENNSYLVANIA'S GREATEST 
COUNTY WEEKLY 



CIRCULATION 

Greater Than All Other 

Potter Oounty Papers 

Combined 



Best Equipped and Manned Job 

ng Plant in No 

Pennsylvania 



Printing Plant in Northern 



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$200,000 has been expended upon the maintenance 
of the schools. 

The high school at Coudersport has a Depart- 
ment of Agriculture under the direction of a special- 
ly trained teacher. There is a Vocational Supervis- 
or of agriculture attached to the office of the County 
Superintendent whose dut}^ it is to supervise its 
teaching of agriculture in all schools of the County. 
Potter County is one of only four counties in the 
State to have such a supervisor. 




May Pole Drill at Austin School 



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HAKKY L. LUSH 8. LYNN LUSH 

LUSH BROTHERS 

Successors to 
HENRY W. LUSH 

GALETON, PENNA. 



PILLSBURY'S FLOUR 

HAY AND GRAIN 

GROCERIES 

PRY GOODS 

FURNITURE 

DRAPERIES 

RUGS AND LINOLEUMS 

BEDS AND BEPP>ING 



Courteous treatment, unexcelled service 
aiul QUALITY merchandise at reasonable 
l)rices, is responsible for our laro^e volume of 
business. 



R. OTTO LUSH WM. GALE LUSH 



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Illllllllllllllllllll 



THE 

GALETON DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. 

Organized in 1918 



It now operates a condensery 
at Galeton and makes 



THE 

"RED MILU^ 

BRAND 

Condensed Milk 



It has done much to develop the 
dairy interests in South- 
eastern Potter County. 



It co-operates with the Farmers 

and pays the Dairymen's 

League Price for Milk. 



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SL 



THE RELIABLE 
DRUG STORE 



I? 



£ 



WILIAM J. HEYMANN, P. D. 

26 Main Street 

GALETON, PA. 



A SAFE PLACE TO BUY 
DRUGS 



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Bell 'Phone 111-R3 



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SKETCH OF GALETON 

(By M. J. Handwerk) 

CHE active liistorv of Galeton, formerly known 
as Pike Mills, began with the building of the 
tannery about 40 years ago. W. & L. R. Gale, who 
had formerly operated a tannery at Honesdale, Pa., 
came here and purchased immense tracts of timber, 
and the bark from much more. The hides were 
hauled from Westfield, and afterwards from Anson- 
ia, where railroad connections were made with the 
Fall Brook railroad now a part of the New York 
Central. 

A few years later the Clintons erected a large 
hemlock mill which was afterwards acquired by F 
H. & C. W. Goodyear. A narrow gage railroad was 
built from Addison in the early eighties. 

The Goodyears then extended the Buffalo and 
Susquehanna from Keating Summit to Ansonia, and 
Dought the Addison & Pennsylvania. 

The shops of the Buffalo & Susquehanna were 
next erected, and the Emporium Lumber Company 
erected a large mill for the manufacture of hard- 
wood. A heading factory^ and a hub factory- took 
care of the timber best fitted to their operation, and 
Galeton became the emporium of the lumber indus- 
try in this section of the State. 

With the timber supply exhausted the business 
men looked for other industries to locate here, and 
as a result there is now in operation besides the 
tannery and railroad shops, a silk throwing mill own- 
ed by the Harbred Silk Company, a wood working 
and novelty works, a glove factory, a condensery 
and a large feed and flour mill. 

The merchants report business better than ever 

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OTTO C. MOSCH 

Potter County's Largest 
Store 



DRY GOODS CLOTHING 

SHOES 

PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS 



GALETON, PA. 



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in Galeton's history and the deposits of the two 
banks, the Galeton Banking Company and the First 
National Bank show a steady and healthy growth. 

Galeton is ideally situated on the head waters 
of the Pine Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna 
and the finest hunting and fishing grounds in Penn- 
sylvania are within a few hours ride. The scenery 
is unsurpassed east of the Rockies. The northern, 
east and west state highway from Erie to Honesdale 
passes through Galeton. This is now in course of 
permanent construction, and when completed will 
make it possible for tourists to go from Buffalo and 
the central west to Harrisburg, Washington and 
New York through a territory rich in natural re- 
sources, and abounding in scenery wild and ro- 
mantic. 




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HAMMERSLEY'S CASH STORE 

GROCERIES 

CROCKERY 

KITCHEN UTENSILS 

LIGHT HARDWARE 

GASOLINE 

MOTOR OILS 

SHOES 

RUBBERS 

DRY GOODS 

UNDERWEAR 

HOSIERY 

MENS' WORK CLOTHING 

We carry a very large stock of goods. Our 
sei*vice is courteous and intelligent, and our 
prices cannot be beaten as we pay "CASH" 
and sell for "CASH.' 

Yours very truly, 



HAMMERSLEY & CO. 

75-77 Germania St. - - Galeton, Penn'a. 



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THE BIG STORE IN A 
GOOD TOWN 

With a Complete 
Line of 

Hardware, Sporting Goods, 

Walter A, Wood and 

John Deere 

Farm Machinery 

Agents for 

Pine Tree Milking Machine 



We Like to See You 

Whether You Buy 

or Not. 



HORN & DEVLING 

GALETON, POTTER COUNTY, PENN'A. 



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Go to the 

DEVIL'S ICE BOX 

Also called 

ICE MINE 



Four miles east of Coudei'siJoi't, Pa. Beau- 
tiful and fantastic ice formations appear dur- 
ing spring, sunnr.er and fall but melt on ap- 
proach of winter. This ice is not mined or man- 
ufactured. 

A AVonderful Freak of Nature, visited an- 
nually by thousands. Especially large crowds 
come on Sundays, (Take Your Overcoat With 
You.) 

Illustrated booklet mailed to any address 
on receipt of twenty-seven cents.. 

See illustration on opposite page. 

For location see may) on page 13. ' 



COUDERSPORT ICE MINE 

(XJUl)ERSPOKT, - - PENN'A. 

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WEST STREET THEATRE 

H. E. Cane, Prop. 

PARAMOUNT, ARTCRAFT AND ALL 

THE BEST PICTURES 

Coming August 2nd and 3rd 

"THE MIRACLE MAN'' 




TWO NEW PRODUCTS 

— the — 

THE KING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd. 

Manufacturing Chemists 

Coudersport, Pa. 

Lady Betty Cold Cream — The finest, sweetest, smoothest 
Cold Cream ever made. An ideal Cream and Skin Food 
of absolutely pure and harmless materials, which may be 
used freely on the most delicate skin. Price, 2 5c. 

Mentho-King — A triumph in the art of Ointment mak- 
ing. A dainty, healing Ointment for abrasions of the 
skin, cuts, bruises, colds, catarrh, and any type of in- 
flammation. Put up in a neat lithographed tube, which 
is convenient for carrying in a grip when traveling. 
Truly the World's Greatest Ointment. Price, 2 5c. 

Our products are sold by live dealers everywhere. If 
your dealer is not awake, we will send postpaid any- 
where on earth on receipt of price. 

KING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ltd. 
Coudersport, Pa. 



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THE FLOOD CITY 

EEW towns in Pennsylvania stand out as prom- 
inent as examples of civic pride and progress 
as does the Borough of Austin. Disaster after dis- 
aster has followed the fortunes of this town, but 
with a spirit and a purpose truly unterriiied, the 
town has risen from each, bigger and better than ev- 
er before and stands today one of the most live and 
I)rogressive towns in Pennsylvania. 

In 1884, the name of the town was changed 
from Freeman's Pun, to Austin and the Borough 




Austin Community Club House 

incorporated. In September, 1885, the first log was 
sawed in the Goodyear mill and this plant was oper- 
ated continuously until Februarv% 1911. 

The first disaster to visit the town was a fire 
in 1890, when the entire business section was wiped 
out. Seven yeai-s later the entire residential section 
of the town was destroyed by fire but with the same 
spirit that characterizes the town today, the town 
was rebuilt after these two catastrophes. 

In 1899, the Bayless Manufacturing Corporation 

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Boost and Boost Again — By So Doing You Will Make 
Our Community a Better Place in Which to Live. 

Signed: F. A. Rosenbloom. 



ROSENBLOOM'S 

Department and General 
Store 

AVliere You Get 
the Best 

We sincerely wish to reduce the high-cost-of- 
living but not at the expense of quality. ' ' The 
Best" is our motto, "at the Lowest Possible 
Prices. ' ' 

If you buy Jewelry 

If you buy Clothing ~ / 

If you buy Shoes i " 

If you buy Dry Goods 

If you buy Flour and Feed 

If you buy Groceries 

If you buy Anything Else 

If you buy Them of Us 
You are sure to get the best. We contend that the best 
is none too good for Austin and Potter County. The 
lowest prices consistent with the best of quality. 

ROSENBLOOM'S 
Austin, Pa. 

In Business since 1894 and the only ones knocking us 
are those who owe us longest. 



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located its manunoth paper plant in Austin and has 
since been the town's principal industry. 

Another and terrible disaster visited the town in 
September, 1911, when the dam of the paper mill 
broke, and at which time practically the entire busi- 
ness and residential sections of the town were en- 
tirely destroyed. The exact figures were never ob- 
tained but at least 168 houses were known to have 




North Pennsylvania General Hospital, Austin 

been dislocated, 78 lives lost and a monitoiw loss of 
from two and a half to three million dollars suf- 
fered. 

Statistics show that every year from the begin- 
ning of the town there has been an increase of popu- 
lation averaging 50 per cent in the boro proper and 
at the time of the flood the population was some- 
thing over 3,000. Immediately following the flood 
this population was reduced to between 700 and 800 
and the census of 1920 shows something over 1700. 

At the present time this boro is jn'obably the 
healthiest of any small town in the state and the in- 

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BANK OF AUSTIN 

AUSTIN, PA. 



Capital $50,000.00 

Resources over $400,000.00 



F. E. Baldwin, President. 

G. C. Bayless, Vice President. 
H. B. King, Cashier. 



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domitable spirit of the people spells a greater suc- 
cess for tlie town than ever before. 

The town has a number of miles of concrete 
walks, paved streets, municipal water works, good 
sewerage, commodious school buildings both graded 
and high school, three churches, bank, hospital, 
hotels and all that goes to make up a progressive, 
enterprising town. 

During 1919, the people of Austin decided u])on 
having more amusements for the town in general and 
in their usual get-together spirit with the assistance 
of a local industry, (the Bayless Company), which 
latter company donated one-half the amount and 
guaranteed 5 per cent returns on the public sub- 
scription, they have suceeded in nearing completion 
a Community Club Building, the cost of which will 
total probably $85,000. The size of this building is 
approximately 200 ft. x 90 ft. containing bowling 
alleys, billiard rooms, shower baths, restaurant, club 
parlors, theatre seating 400, dance hall, 90 ft. x 60 ft. 
and class rooms. 



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A Checking Account 
in this Bank obviates the 
necessity of request- 
ing a receipt. 



GALETON BANKING 
COMPANY 

GALETON, PA. 



Our '25th Year 
of Service 



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I American Silver Truss Corporation Plant, Coudersport 

Manufacturers of Trusses, 

Abdominal Supporters, 

Suspensories and 

Surgical Hosiery 

Traveling representatives cover 

the United States while 

much foreign business 

is received by mail. 

AMERICAN SILVER TRUSS 
CORPORATION 

c 

The Black Diamond Line Leads I 

-o— . - «,_. » » ._. „_J 

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POTTER COUNTY AGRICULTURE 

Potter County— 

Has 2,200 farms. 

Has 12,000 dairy cows. 

Produces 60,000,000 pounds of milk annually. 

Has 135 herds of pure-bred Holstein cows. 

Has 65 herds of pure-bred Ayershire cows. 

Has the first co-operative Ayershire Bull Asso- 
ciation in America, owning seven high record Ayer- 
shire bulls which serve seventeen herds. 

Ships approximately 750 car-loads of potatoes 
annuallv. 




Contented Potter County Thoroughbreds 

Has an altitude of 1200 to 2700 feet with a short 
cool season, a fact which makes it one of the best 
seed-potato growing counties in the country. 

Produces disease-free seed-potatoes for other 
sections of the country. 

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Member of Fedeial Reserve Bank 



THE 

GRANGE NATIONAL BANK 

OF POTTER COUNTY 

ULYSSES, PA. 

Capital - - $25,000.00 

Surplus - - $18,000.00 

OFFICERS 

Art S. Burt, President 

G. S. Ladd, Vice President 

H. L. Cass, Cashier 

Margaret Chappell, Asst. Cashier 



DIRECTORS 

Art S. Burt J- W. Spencer 

G. S. Ladd J. L- Raymond 

Geo. Nickerson R. L. Holbert 

John F. Stone G. C. Marion 
P. H. Miller 



i We Solicit Your Banking Busines 

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Produces a yield of potatoes of from 200 to 400 
bushels per acre. 

Has pure mountain spring water, with high, 
well drained pastures, making an ideal range for 
sheep. 

Produces 40,000 pounds of wool and 3,000 lambs 
for market annually. 

Has a Federal Farm Loan Association with 
loans amounting to over $100,000. 

Has a Farm Bureau which has 400 acres of po- 
tatoes under spraying demonstration for blight; 50 
acres under demonstration for disease control; has 
organized a Potato Growers Association for market- 
ing the crop; has organized the first Ayershire Bull 
Association in America, which owns seven of the 
best Ayershire bulls in the breed; has organized an 
Holstein Bull Club; has organized both a Holstein 
and an Ayershire Breeders' Association; has three 
orchards under demonstration for disease control; 
has two meadow top-dressing demonstrations; has 
aided in organizing ten local branches of the Dairy- 
men's League. 



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COUDERSPORT BOROUGH 

OVER a Imndred years ago at a council of the 
cliiets of the Six Nations of Indians, the Mo- 
hawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Senecas, the 
Tuscaroras and Cayugas at Fort Stanwix, Oneida 
county, N. Y., the ground on which Coudersport is 
located was formally deeded to the State of Penn- 
sylvania, and the Ohio riv^er and Tiadaghton creek 
were made over to the survey and legal possession 
of white peo])le. What was to be the ]n'ice was not 




Potter County Court House at Coudersport 

stated, but a previous statement was for ten thous- 
and dollars, in goods, mostly. 

Some ten years later, a patent for this land was 

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issued to William Bingliam, who soon after sold 
very extensive tracts to John Keating & Co., who 
had the land sui-veyed, roads opened and people liv- 
ed to make clearings so that occasional breaks in the 
forest showed the first footsteps of civilization. 

At about the same date, 1796, the county of Ly- 
coming was formed, including Potter, but in 1804, 
this county was separated from that of Lycoming. 
Soon after this our village was laid out by the Keat- 




Potter County Jail at Coudersport 

ing Company and named by them for Mr. Couder. 
The singularity of having a "port" away up among 
the mountains was probably due to having for chief 
surveyor, an Englishman, who could not realize 
that the sea was far oft* and no ports wanted. 

Soon a party of surveyors came and spent many 
a day laying out streets thru laurel thickets and 
l)lanning a flourishing town. Such liberal induce- 
ments were offered that in 1807 this was made the 
county seat. 

A Mr. Dingman, an old resident and Mr. Knick- 

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erbaker in 1814 or 181i5, took a job to clear ten acres 
in Coudersport. Not long after Mr. Obadiali Sart- 
well came and built a small log house but abandoned 
it. In this same cabin however Israel Merrick taught 
school about seventy years ago. 

In 1815, the Legislative authorized the election 
of Commissioners but they did not meet in this place 
until 1824. The first post route was established 
from Jersey Shore at about this same time and once 
in two weeks mail was carried here on horseback. 

One of the early residents was John L. Carter, 
who came and built a frame house on the lot where 
the jail now is which was opened to the public. Here 
Mr. Keating stayed when he made his annual visits 
often accompanied by members of his family. Eu- 
lalia Township was named for one of Mr. Keating 's 
daughters. 

In 1826 the first election was held in Couders- 
port at the Cartee House. 

The building of a turnpike road from Jersey 
Shore to Coudersport occupied several years and 
was completed in 1833. The same year Potter Coun- 
ty was judicially organized and began to look out 
for its public buildings. So "the old Court House" 
was built on the present location and completed so 
that Court was held here in September, 1835. The 
first Judge was Mr. Timothy Ives. 

Mr. Franklin Covey brought a press to town at 
about this same time publishing a newspaper named, 
The Potter Pennon. Thic was followed in 1841 by 
the Pioneer and then the Journal in 1848. 

To satisfy the educational wants of the people 
an academy was built so that in 1840 the first school 
year began. The religious side of life was taken care 

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C. & p. A. R. R. Station at Coiidersport 

of by visiting ministers and in 1854 a Presbyterian 
Church was built and soon after a Methodist. 

Toward the close of the forties a little sewing 
society was formed which resulted in May 1850 in 
the Coudersport Library Association. Such a small 
beginning has finally resulted in the present collect- 
ion of books which we find at our disposal today. 

Coudersport has experienced a number of in- 
dustrial booms and depressions and while there has 
been a sight falling off in population during the past 
ten years, the town to-day, is conceeded to be in the 
most healthy and prosperous condition it ever has 
been. It is developing gradually into a town of live 
industry and its leading manufacturing concerns 
and labor employing establishments are. The Ameri- 
can Silver Truss Corporation, McCabe Furniture 
Company, Harbred Silk Company, King Manu- 
facturing Company, Graham Roller Bearing Com- 
pany and Elk Tanning Company, Coudersport Man- 
gle Roller Company, Dieffenbacher Heading Mill. 

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WOOD CHEMICAL INDUSTRY 

(By Monta C. Burt ) 

^^=^HE making of charcoal and chemicals from our 
%^J native hardwoods had its beginning in Potter 
County about 35 years ago at Ehner Harrison Town- 
ship where a Mr. Burcey conducted a small retort 
plant for a time. Another attempt was made by the 
Corbetts in the early nineties who erected a small 
plant on the South Branch between Gennania and 
Galeton moving it soon afterwards into West Branch 
Township where the plant was oi)erated a few years 
and dismantled. About this time the Gaffneys built 
and operated a small plant at Austin which in tuni 
proved an unprofitable venture and was moved to 
another county. 

During the period 1900 to 1910, the business be- 
came firmly established in the county by the erection 
of plants of the following capacity: 

Gray Chemical Co., Roulette, 60 cords 

Oswayo Chemical Co., Coneville, 24 cords 

Gaffney Wood Products Co., Walton 100 cords 

Genesee Chemical Co, Genesee, 3 cords 

Total daily capacity 215 cords 

The cutting, delivering, carbonizing and distill- 
ation of the wood for the aforesaid plants furnishes 
continuous employment for upwards of 500 men and 
many teams and over one million dollars is annually 
paid out for raw material and labor by these indus- 
tries in the county. 

Wood chemicals have now become largely key 
or basic chemicals and the demand for wood alcohol, 
acetone, acetic acid, creosote oils, wood preserva- 
tives and flotation oils for use in all lines of indus- 
trial chemistry is wide spread. 

Elsewhere in this booklet Chief Forester Emerick 
states that of Potter County's total area of 678,790 

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acres, 90^^' or 546,645 acres is woodland. Tlio fear 
that the hardwood forests of our county are being 
depleted by the wood chemical industries should be 
appeased by this statement as the :naximum rate of 
cutting by the combined industry as now operated 
in this county does not exceed 3,000 acres a year and 
under favorable conditions every acre of land in our 




Gray Chemical Company Plant, Roulette. 

county not adaptd to agricultural purposes can be 
made to grow 25 cords of chemical wood each gen- 
eration. 

Potter County's natural wealth of the future is 
in her hardwoods, which if protected from fires are 
destined to become a perpetual asset to the county of 
much greater value than were the limited forests of 
pine and hemlock. Three hundred thousand acres of 
our hillsides can not be tilled but can be made to 
grow a profitable crop of raw material each gener- 
ation for wood chemical or other purposes or a crop 
of timber suitable for lumber each second or third 
generation. 



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. J 

WE MUST DEPEND UPON 
EACH OTHER 



XT IS not to be expected that men and wom- 
en who devote all their time to the rais- J 
ing of crops will have at their finger tips all the 
ins and outs of business practices, any more 
I than it could be expected of the banker to make 
i a successful job of running a farm. 
I In all human society, as it is constituted to- 

j day one class must rely upon the other, and 
i both work intelligently and harmonious if there 
1 is to be any kind of success. 
1 This little advertisement is printed to bring 

! forcibly to the attention of our friends the will- 
ingness of this sound old institution to lend its 
judgment and experience to all the community 
in solving the various problems of business. 

Why? Because the bank grows, only as 
the individuals of our community prosper. 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

at Galeton, Pa. 



Jas. T. Huid, President J. C. Gault, Cashier 

H. E. Seltz, Vice Pres. R. C. Straley, Asst. Cashier 



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OTHER COUNTY TOWNS 

J^^AKING Potter County in the aggregate, it has 
^^/nothing but live towns and what some localities 
lack in population they make up in business pro- 
gressiveness. One of these hustling smaller towns 
is Roulette, where a live citizenry unites in real town 
building. In this town, as leading industries, are the 
Gray Chemical Company, the V. & S. Bottle Com- 
pany and the stave and heading mill of the Warner 
Sugar Refining Company. 

The town of Genesee is experiencing one of the 
most successful periods in the town's history, aug- 
mented by a mammoth plant of the Helvetia Milk 




Gigantic Milk Plant at Genesee 

Company. Some twenty or thirty new houses are 
being constructed and the residents and business 
men of the town are wide awake and boosting for a 
successful future for the place. 

The village of Ulysses is a town far advanced 
in intellectual development and possesses all those 
natural advantages that go to make up a successful 

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small town. It abounds in fine residents and prop- 
erties, good bank, library and located as it is in the 
center of one of the best agricultural sections of the 
county, it is a prominent and leading trading center 
for a large population. 

Clennania is one of the towns of the county, per- 
haps more closely associated than any other with 
the early days and the story of Ole Bull. Hardy 
German pioneers settled this community and they 




W. I. Lewis Library at Ulysses 

are famed throughout Pennsylvania for their thrifty 
agricultural accomplishments, for in and about Ger- 
mania abound the best and most productive farms 
of the county. Germania's only manufacturing en- 
terprise is a heading mill which is being operated 
with much success. 

The largest tannery in Pennsylvania was for 
years located in the live little town of Costello and 
while the plant is still there its operations have been 
curtailed to some extent. Costello was also the cen- 
ter of a large lumbering operation and still has 

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within its borders and in operation a mill of the Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania Lumber Company, which is the 
last of the hardwood mills in the county. 

Harrison Valley, Potter's most northern town, 
possesses a live population, who are united in furth- 
ering the town's best interests. Here is located the 
Harrison Valley Orphans' Home, the only institution 
of its kind in this section of Pennsylvania and one 
of the most worthy charties in existence. The town 
boasts a large tannery and a water company, the 
products of which are famed throughout a large ter- 
territory for its purity and excellence. 




A Recent View From the Site of Ole Bull Castle. 
(Photo by Dr. Geo. P. Donehoo) 



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SCHUTT & GILLON 

COUDERSPORT, PA. 




Furniture, 
Wall Decorations, Draperies, 

Rugs, Linoleums, 
I Window Shades, 
\ Funeral Directing. 
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Published Weekly at Galeton. 

Covers the Eastern Part 

of Potter County Like 

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OUR Commercial Department 
shows a constantly increas- 
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Index Continued From Inside Front Cover 

First National Bank of Genesee 14 

John Dunlop's Sons 15 

Citizen Safe Deposit and Trust Company 16 

McCabe Furniture Company 26 

S. H. Owen Grocery 28 

W. T. Fisk Hardware . 30 

Phelps Auto Livery 31 

Hotel Crittenden 32 

L. D. Meacham Grocery 33 

First National Bank, Shinglehouse 34 

Osvvayo Valley Mail ^ 36 

K, E. Fenner General Store 38 

Dodge Hardware Company 40 

First National Bank and Coudersport Trust Company 42 

The Potter Enterprise 1 44 

Lush Brothers 46 

Galeton Dairy Products Company 47 

The Reliable Drug Store 48 

Otto C. Mosch 50 

Kammersley and Company 52 

Horn and Devling 53 

Devil's Ice Box 54 

Eayless Manufacturing Corporation 57 

Rosenblooms 59 

Bank of Austin 61 

Galeton Banking Company 63 

American S'lver Truss Corpcraticn 64 

Grange National Bank of Potter County 66 

First National Darik of Galeton 74 

Schutt & Gillcn 78 

Galeton Leader-Dispatch 79 

Galeton Ir.surauce Comi)any 80 



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vanced the Historical Society, 
newly founded, was without ample 
funds to publish a program. It was at 
this point that the Potter Enterprise 
conceived the idea of this work and 
hence this publication. The Enter- 
prise thanks the merchants and busi- 
ness men for their co-operation, for 
it is only thru their loyalty that this 
book is made possible. 

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